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WE are sorry to record that an accident, attended with fatal results, took place between six and seven o'clock on Monday morning, on board one of the boats belonging to H. M. S. Pelorus. The following are the paticulars…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHEN Mr. Faucett arrived at the Currier's Arms, he entered the house and went up to the balcony, which was crowded with his friends and admirers. We understand the people had been warned not to crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the termination of the business at the hostings, the majority of the assembled crowd adjurned to the successful candidate's Committee Rooms at Fox's Hotel, at the corner of King and Castlereagh…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IMMEDIATELY after the rough declaration of the poll for East Sydney election, the successful candidate, Peter Fancett, Esq., and his friends, retired to the Carriers' Arms, in King street, and proceeded to the balcony on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HOWEVER much it is to be regretted that such a terrible accident as happened last Friday night should have made memorable the election for East Sydney caused by Mr. Cowper's retirement from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is a melancholy fact that an Anniversary Day is almost invariably attended by loss of life, and this year it is our painful duty to record the loss of Ave human lives. On Thursday, Mr Horner, of. William-strost,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME particulars of the accidental drowning of Mr. J. Horner, lat chemist and druggist, of William-street, and of his son Mr. J. C. Horner at Coogee, on Thursday, appeared in our issue of yesterday. We are now enabled to give a more full account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER deplorable and fatal accident occrred to a boating party, on the afternoon of Thursday last, the day of the regatta. No inquest having yet been held,our information of the unfortunate event is but meagre. It appears that about the time men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE are now enabled to give a more accurate statement of the melancholy case of drowning by the upsetting of a boat off Cockatoo Island, on the afternoon of Thursday last, some particulars of which appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, 31st January.—A fatal occurrence took place this morning, at half-past nine o'clock, on the Great Northern line. The train left West Maitland at nine o'clock, for Newcastle, and proceeded at its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →F[?]BRUARY 1ST.—I sent yesterday morning a necessarily hurried account of a dreadful occurrence which had just taken place on the Great Northern Railway, near Hexham. The absence of Dr. Knagge, the coroner, on the business of another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—It has rarely happened, over the 25 years that I have been in this colony, that an Anniveranry Day has passed without loss of life by drowning, and seldom have these losses been more distressing han on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SERIOUS boat accident occurred at Algoa Bay, on the 4th of December. An Eastern Province paper gives the following particulars:— About 10 o'clock, a boat with six passengers (Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In consequence of the late melancholy accidents by drowning, I am induced to make known the following simple remedies applied by me in many instances with invariable success in cases of seeming drowning of sheep during the process of washing."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fon the past three days, the atmosphere has been very oppressive in and around Sydney. On Wednesday last, it commenced mining hard and continued throughout the night, accompanied with hravy guets of wind; and Thursday morning was generally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DISTRESSING and fatal accident occurred at Manly Beach on Monday evening last. Mr. John Campbell, who had recently taken the large new house facing the sea, and had just opened it under the sign of the Steyne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MOST distressing accident, by which a family have been plunged into deep grief, occurred about half-past five o'clock on Saturday last. Mr. Parfitt, coach-maker, of William-street, with his two sons, daughter,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MELANCHOLY case of drowning occurred in the harbour on Saturday evening. It appears that Mr. Parfitt, coachbuilder, of William-street, went out in a boat fishing about four o'olook, sccompanied by his two sons, George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY the City Coroner conducted an inquest at the Museum Hotel, Wiliam-street, on the body of Joseph Parfitt, aged seven years who, with his brother, was drowned by the upsetting of a boat on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—It must strike the most casual observer, that the number of sudden deaths caused by what are termed accidents, which appear day after day in the public newspapers, require some kind of rigid inquiry, at least…
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